Category: Travel Writing
(1.) Those which, like Fauro and some of the Florida Islands, are composed partly of modern rocks, such as hornblende and augite-andesites with their tuffs and agglomerates, and partly of ancient and often highly crystalline rocks such as, as I am informed by Prof. Judd and Mr...
(1.) Those which, like Fauro and some of the Florida Islands, are composed partly of modern rocks, such as hornblende and augite-andesites with their tuffs and agglomerates, and...
2. CHAPTER I.A Traveller’s Difficulties--Islands of which Science has no ken--Bush-Walking a Tedious Process--Ascent of Stream-Courses--Heavy Annual Rainfall--Native Companions--Mysterious I...
3. CHAPTER II.Hereditary Chieftainship--St. Christoval--Coast Tribes and Bush Tribes--Their unceasing Hostility--Head-Hunting and Head-Money-- Greater Power of the Chiefs of Bougainville Stra...
4. CHAPTER III.Position of the Female Sex--Infanticide--The Women are the Cultivators --A Plea for Polygamy--Marital Establishments--Kaika, the principal Wife of the Shortland Chief--Her Death...
5. CHAPTER IV.6. CHAPTER V.7. CHAPTER VI.Race Affinities--Migrations of the Pacific Islanders--Evidence derived from the Native Names of Littoral Trees--A Typical Solomon Islander-- Variations in the Type--Physical Mea...
8. CHAPTER VII.9. CHAPTER IX.Medicine-Men--Indifference to the Sick--Great Recuperative Powers after Severe Injuries--The Hot-Stone Treatment--Nostalgic Melancholy-- Ulcers--Solomon Island or Tokelau Ringwo...
10. CHAPTER X.Vocabulary of Bougainville Straits--Divisions of the Solomon Island Languages--Affinities of the Vocabulary--Important Clues afforded by the Comparison of the Native Names of Co...
11. CHAPTER XI.Prefatory Remarks--The Journal--Prologue--Voyage from Peru--Its Length --Crew disheartened--Isle of Jesus--Candelaria Shoals--Arrival at Estrella Harbour--Exploring Cruise of th...
12. CHAPTER XII.A Pious Fraud--Drake’s appearance in the South Sea--Jealousy of the Spaniards--“It being considered better, as things were then, to let these Islands remain unknown”--“Omne igno...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Knowledge of Plants possessed by these Islanders--Ascent of a Stream-Course--Interior of the Forest--Up to the Summit of Faro Island--Littoral Vegetation---How a Coral Island is...
14. CHAPTER XIV.15. CHAPTER XV.16. CHAPTER XVI.Several New Species--Variation of Species--Bulimi--Neritinæ--Mode of Dispersal--Suggestion as to the Origin of Tree-Nerites--The capability of Neritinæ to adapt themselves to di...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Rainfall--The Black Squall--Rain Records of Ugi and Santa Anna--Ship Record--Annual Rainfall of the Coasts and Higher Regions--Barometric Pressure--Temperature--Humidity--Sun-bu...
18. CHAPTER I.THOSE who have never been tempted “to seek strange truths in undiscovered lands,” will perhaps find it difficult to appreciate the disappointments, inconveniences, and petty dif...
19. CHAPTER II.THE following anthropological notes are the result of my own personal observation and research, and are necessarily of a somewhat fragmentary character. I had no intention when...
20. CHAPTER III.THE position of the female sex amongst the natives of the eastern islands of the Solomon Group would appear to differ but little from the position which it holds amongst races i...
21. CHAPTER IV.THE villages in the eastern islands of the group vary much in size. They usually contain between 25 and 40 houses, and between one and two hundred inhabitants. There are however...
22. CHAPTER V.THE inhabitants of the islands of Bougainville Straits display far more interest in the cultivation of the soil than do those of St. Christoval and its adjacent islands. Whether...
23. CHAPTER VI.[80] My observations on the physical characters of these islanders were embodied in a paper read before the Anthropological Institute in July, 1885. They were to be published in...
24. CHAPTER VII.THE dress worn by the men of these islands is generally of the scantiest description. A narrow band of cloth, worn like a [T] bandage, often constitutes their only garment. In s...
25. CHAPTER VIII.IN the eastern islands of the Solomon Group there is a considerable uniformity in the construction of the canoe. “Dug-out” canoes are rarely to be seen, except in the sheltered...
26. CHAPTER IX.I HAVE previously remarked that in these islands the duties of the sorcerer and the medicine-man are frequently combined. The same man, who can remove a disease by exorcism and...
27. CHAPTER X.THIS vocabulary was formed in great part by Lieutenant A. Leeper, to whom I may take this opportunity of expressing my thanks for his kindness, in thus placing it at my disposal...
28. CHAPTER XI.A CONSIDERABLE interest was aroused in the minds of geographers, rather more than a century ago, by the recent discoveries of French and English navigators in that portion of th...
29. CHAPTER XIITHE most interesting feature in the history of the discovery of the Solomon Group is the circumstance that during a period of two hundred years after it was first discovered by...
30. Part I., p. 157.I will now refer briefly to the voyagers who subsequently visited this group, after its identity had become established. In May 1790, Lieutenant Ball,[381] in the “Supply,” when...
31. CHAPTER XIII.MY botanical collections were made during 1884 in the islands of Bougainville Straits; and in order to add to the completeness of this section of my work, I will briefly refer t...
32. CHAPTER XIV.IN a memoir on the Reptiles and Batrachians of the Solomon Islands, which was read before the Zoological Society, on May 6th, 1884,[439] Mr. Boulenger remarked that very little...
33. CHAPTER XV.AMONGST the numerous strange acquaintances which I made in the Solomon Islands, was that of the well known cocoa-nut crab, or _Birgus latro_; and I take this opportunity of givi...
34. CHAPTER XVI.DURING my numerous excursions in these islands, I had in the majority of instances to follow up the stream-courses in order to examine their geological structure. I had therefor...
35. CHAPTER XVII.AMONGST the matters to which I devoted some attention in this group of islands, was the annual rainfall. As far as I know, there have been no continuous observations previously...